"The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life." "But tell me, please, what you intend to do with this new lot of the Powder of Life, which Dr.Pipt is making.

He said his wife wanted it for some especial purpose." "So I do," she answered.

"I want it to bring my Patchwork Girl to life." "Oh! A Patchwork Girl?
What is that ?" Ojo asked, for this seemed even more strange and unusual than a Glass Cat.
"I think I must show you my Patchwork Girl," said Margolotte, laughing at the boy's astonishment, "for she is rather difficult to explain.

But first I will tell you that for many years I have longed for a servant to help me with the housework and to cook the meals and wash the dishes.

No servant will come here because the place is so lonely and out-of-the-way, so my clever husband, the Crooked Magician, proposed that I make a girl out of some sort of material and he would make her live by sprinkling over her the Powder of Life.